This extract from a 15 November 2010 NSA memo reveals that the agency has been able to access Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s email account: see the Der Spiegel article NSA Accessed Mexican President’s Email, 20 October 2013.

This section of a 17 May 2006 article from an internal NSA newsletter makes it clear that Japanese foreign policy and trade activities are surveillance targets for the agency: see the Intercept article Japan Made Secret Deals With The NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance, 24 April 2017.

A selection of slides from a Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) presentation gives case studies on the use of graph analysis in relation to the political leadership of Mexico and Brazil: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

This excerpt from a 2006 NSA memo written by the global resources manager of the International Security Issues (ISI) mission underlines the importance of data on energy resources, production and international investment to the agency: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

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This NSA presentation from 2012 discusses techniques for subverting “lawful intercept” systems used abroad: see the Intercept article A Death in Athens: Did a Rogue NSA Operation Cause the Death of a Greek Telecom Employee?, 29 September 2015.

This NSA presentation describes the staffing and activities of the Tailored Access Operations sectio based in San Antonia Texas. These included operations against Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Security (codenamed WHITETAMALE), Cuba, Columbia, Venezuela and unspecified targets in the Middle East: see the Der Spiegel article Inside TAO: Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit, 29 December […]

This slide from a 2013 NSA Special Source Operations presentation shows that SOMALGET is used to investigate narcotics offenses: see the Intercept article: Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May 2014.

This largely redacted information paper from NSA’s Central Security Service dated 3 April 2013 details the current state of the agency’s cooperative relationship with its Canadian counterpart: see the book No Place To Hide, 13 May 2014.

The author explains the transition of the former U.S. Customs Service into the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement within the new Department of Homeland Security.

This 13 September 2010 presentation from the NSA’s OTP VPN Exploitation Team explains the work of the division: see the Der Spiegel story Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA’s War on Internet Security, 28 December 2014.

This August 2010 post from the internal NSA newsletter SIDtoday shows how the agency aided US diplomacy on the issue of Iran sanctions – by surveilling the communications of other members of the UN Security Council: see the Época article Spies of the digital age, 2 August 2013.

This extract is taken from an undated dictionary produced by NSA Special Source Operations, providing glosses for several terms associated with MYSTIC operations. The name of one country has been redacted: see the Intercept article Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May 2014. Download […]

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This slide, from an undated NSA presentation, shows that the agency is able to defeat BlackBerry encryption technology – using an email from a Mexican government official as an example: see the Der Spiegel article iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data, 9 September 2013.

This update from the NSANet intranet shows that the International Security Issues section of the agency shows a growing emphasis on gathering economic and financial information on the 13 countries under its remit: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

Three redacted slides from an NSA presentation name several states as subjects of ongoing interest: see the Fantástico article Veja os documentos ultrassecretos que comprovam espionagem a Dilma, 2 December 2013.

The chief of intelligence security issues describes an exciting career, which began with averting an assassination attempt against a congressional delegation by narco-insurgents in Asia. In the chief's opinion, the NSA needs better IT tools and functionalities, from web access to better PCs.

This 25 May 2011 post from the NSA internal newsletter SIDToday describes the agency’s development of speech to text technology: see the Intercept article The Computers are Listening: How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text, 5 May 2015.

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This September 2010 article from the internal NSA newsletter SIDToday recounts how voice recognition technology enabled analysts to find the salient record from over 1300 voice conversations in “less than four minutes”: see the Intercept article Finding Your Voice, 19 January 2018.

This SIDToday report from August 2006 describes the role played by NSA, Germany’s BND and the Sigint Seniors Counterterrorism alliance (SISECT) during 2006’s World Cup: see the Intercept article The Powerful Global Spy Alliance You Never Knew Existed, 1 March 2018.

This undated NSA Special Source Operations memo explains MYSTIC a collaboration between various US agencies that collects signals from telecoms networks by means of devices have been installed for ostenisbly “legitimate commercial services”: see the Intercept article Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas, 19 May […]

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The “key reads” process, first developed for Central Command needs in Operation Iraqi Freedom, has been expanded to more topics and customers. Key reads respond to specific customer requests in less than three days.

For Army Day, Maj. Gen. Richard Quirk delivers lengthy remarks about the history and ethos of the U.S. Army, and urges Signals Intelligence Directorate staff to "recommit yourself to the Country, the mission, and your fellow soldiers."